After the Damage is Done

The United States’ oil and gas infrastructure blight is massive. The Abandoned Wells Administration could clean it up.

On a crisp March morning, Justin Solet launches his boat into the Louisiana marsh between Chauvin and Dulac in Terrebonne Parish. He navigates us through a nest of canals once dredged for the now extinct cypress logging industry. Skirting the perimeter of Lake Boudreaux, we make our way through privately owned oil and gas parcels to Solet’s ancestral la…